Notable deaths on October 8

Argentine football player and manager (1956–2025)

Cuban baseball player (1940–2024)

American football player (1940–2024)

American politician (1946–2024)

American baseball player (1928–2020)

American writer (1945–2015)

Scottish singer-songwriter (1951–2015)

American football player and coach (1940–2015)

American chef (1940–2015)

Welsh actor (1926–2015)

American missionary (born 1921)

American physical chemist

Dutch speed skater

Australian writer

American author (1927–2014)

Tibetan Buddhist tulku (1940–2013)

American baseball player (1921–2013)

Canadian businessman

Irish musician (1957–2013)

American politician (1948–2013)

Swiss coptologist (1927–2013)

British Army officer (1919–2012)

Filipina film director and writer (1955–2012)

Indian politician